The sun is shining, spring is officially in the air, and I’m starting my spring propagations—one of those videos that genuinely makes me feel nostalgic because I’ve been doing this for years. I’m not really a “propagate everything” person anymore. I only take cuttings with intent now, and most of the time that intent is filling out my mother plants so they grow healthy, lush, and full (not just long and spindly). So in this video I’m chopping my Philodendron micans pretty aggressively and tucking cuttings right back into the pot, then taking a Monstera adansonii cutting to water-root and eventually add back in once it’s rooted. I also do some “back to basics” propagation with plants I want to really grow out again—like my adansonii thriving under my Soltech light—and I start a third Hoya linearis because I’m manifesting one cascading off my Vittsjö shelf. Then we get into the jungle cactus experiment: I take cuttings from my Rhipsalis paradoxa (major and minor) and root them in Molly’s orchid mix, because it’s the medium I keep having success with for jungle cactus props. At the end, I grab a few cuttings for an upcoming plant trade (Hoya paradisia, Philodendron ‘Whipple Way’, Begonia chlorosticta, and Hoya serpens), and we have a very exciting moment in my prop box when my Hoya ‘Hushkana’ actually rooted (with new growth!), which honestly shocked me.